Happy Holidays

Wishing everyone a safe, happy holiday and new year from everyone in Room 9!

The End of 2015

Today was the last day of school for 2015 and the last day at Ruapotaka School for the year 8's and Miss Ginders.  It was a day of fun, smiles (and a few tears).  

A big thank you and see you later, I will miss you all!

The Cultural Performances of 2015

The cultural performances mark the end of another year.  Well done to all those who performed on the day.  You made your families, school and friends proud.

End of Year Achievements

Prize giving was held today and we celebrate the achievements of all students, their effort and progress during the past year.
Awards were presented to Sylvia, Athens, Sione, Azahar and Meana from Room 9.  We are all very proud of them and the achievements of all students in Room 9.  

These were very tricky decisions to make as you have all worked extremely hard this year and I am proud of you all!

(Apologies that there was not a photo of Meana.)

Our Athletic Stars

Wednesday was the day for our school athletics.  The rain kept away, the temperature kept rising and our athletes ran as hard as they could.  Everyone tried hard and did their best.  Congratulations to our finalists, some of which who will be off to the inter-schools competition next week. 

Timote Junior 3rd place 75m and 100m

Dakbai 2nd 75m and 400m - 1st 100m

James 3rd 400m

Athens 2nd 75m and 100m

Meaalofa 1st 75m and 100m

Sione 1st 75m 400m - 2nd 100m

Meana 3rd 75m and 100m

This video shares only a small sample of our afternoon.  

Sharing our Smarts... Cybersmart Room 9

An exciting experience took place in Room 9 today.  Learners got the chance to run their own meeting with their family to share their cybersmart knowledge.  They had created a Wevideo (which you can view on their individual blogs) to share all they have learnt during the year in a digital immersion classroom.  And what a lot of learning they had to share...

An Afternoon of Poems

Room Nine spent time learning, writing and reciting poetry to take part in the 2015 poetry recital.  Here are our three finalists preforming their poems.  Ka pai!

The Journey

Planning, rehearsal, filming and editing - just some of the things that Room 9 had to organise to participate in the Manaiakalani Film Festival of 2015.  We don't blame you for mistaking our stars for professional actors!

Music Credit: Dum Dee Dum by Keys and Krates

Ready to Share New Learning

Room 9 have been creating videos to share their digital learning journey.  I was so excited to see these on individual Room 9 blogs that I had to share them on our class blog also.
Check back in, Room 9 will be posting more of these incredible videos to their blogs soon.  Thank you Sylvia and Faye, you can view these on their blogs by following the links.

Sylvia

Hi guys and girls it's me again back with my third video. This video includes what I have learnt to do throughout the year, we had to learn how to make a WeVideo in order to take our Chromebooks home.

Faye



I have created this video to share how we learn in Room 9. This is the first video I have ever created.

Where's Sione?

On Wednesday Sione got to take part in an amazing experience.  He was lucky enough to go with his rugby team to the All Blacks homecoming in Auckland.  

You might just be able to spot him in this video.  Find out more about this exciting event on his blog post: My Big Adventure.

World Champions Back to Back

Room 9 followed the 2015 Rugby World Cup with great interest as they watched and followed teams, learnt about players, the host country and the history of the William Webb Ellis Cup.  

We are excited to share our congratulations with our champions, the All Blacks! 

Coming Soon!

Room 9 are excited to present their directorial debut.  

Coming Soon!

What Inspires You?

Yesterday afternoon Tyrone, a year 10 student from Tamaki College came to sing us a song.

Why? He writes and performs his own music and has shared this on Homai Te Pakipaki.  This Friday he will perform once again and you can vote to support him.  What inspires him to chase his dream?  A love of music and the chance to be famous one day!

What is your dream? 

Back into Action!

The first week of Term 4 was always going to be busy, Room 9 were up for the challenge and it was an awesome week!

This Term we finish off our Rugby World Cup learning as we cheer for our favourite teams until the end.  We will be investigating how plants grow by replanting the garden outside our classroom. As well as all this we will be having a 'Book Week' and creating a library display about Paul Jennings, having a school poetry recital and finding time for all the other learning and fun that needs to happen.  

Term 3 Speeches

At the end of term three the speech finals were held.  Three finalists from Room 9 were chosen who had all put a huge amount of effort into their speech.  They came up with interesting topics, great ideas and practiced to remember them.  We are all very proud of them, great work you three! 

Celebrating Success at the End of Term 3

We have reached the end of Term 3.  Room 9 have all worked hard and we celebrate some of their achievements.

Inter-schools Cross Country

Four exhausted runners at the end of races at Bailey Road School!  After weeks of training, they made it to the inter-schools cross country and represented our school well.  

Congratulations Meana, Lupe, Dakbai and Sione.

Homework A Grades

It takes consistent effort to complete your homework to a high standard every week.

In Room 9 these four have achieved A grades for the entire term by completing all tasks to their best standard each week.  

Well done Sione, Thanush, Meana and Min Zin.

Cross Country Stars

On Wednesday our school cross country was held.  Everyone in Room 9 showed great stamina!  A special congratulations to our finalists: Sione, Lupe, Dakbai, Meana, Azahar and Isabell.  (Unfortunately not everyone was at school on Friday to get their certificate.) 

The Mad Scientists of Room 9!

On Wednesday Room 9 was taken over by scientists investigating: 'How clouds make rain'.

They discovered that when a cloud has collected enough water droplets it gets heavier and heavier until water droplets fall to earth as rain.

 

Symmetrical Style

Symmetry + paper folding = amazing artworks

By learning two simple origami folds Room 9 learners were able to create these stunning symmetrical artworks. Arranging their folded pieces into different patterns, keeping in mind lines of reflective symmetry.

Feedback and Sharing

We have been sharing our narrative writing with others so that we can give and receive feedback. We have been using two medals and a mission and have been really trying to focus on specific narrative features when giving feedback.

Here is some of the feedback Sylvia received from Alicia and Athens.  

Great work you three!

Dear Dairy

So I woke up this morning to get ready for school until I went for a shower, and guess what came out of the shower gummy bears at first I was like” you're just wasting my time” then I was like “mmmm gummy bears!” So I thought I’ll skip the shower and brush my teeth until I turned on the tap and coins started to come out and I started think how am I  going to get to school if I can’t get ready. After that I was like forget it I’ll just brush my hair, put on my uniform and eat breakfast. As soon as I got to school people started to stare, point and talk about me because I looked ugly!

Story By Sylvia